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"The number of military veterans in the country's jails and prisons continues to drop, a new report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics shows.
It's the first government report that includes significant numbers of veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - and the findings defy stereotypes that returning war veterans are prone to crime."
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